Educational Outreach
San Antonio Chamber Music Society Outreach Events
In fulfillment of our mission to provide educational activities promoting the appreciation of chamber music in our community, the San Antonio Chamber Music Society sponsors Outreach Events at area schools and other institutions. Each year some of our artist ensembles from our Sunday Concert series stay over and present morning and afternoon educational outreach events. These events are normally about an hour in duration, and include an informal concert, discussion of the music and a questions-and-answers period with the audience.
If you are a school principal, a music teacher, a band or orchestra director, or someone connected to an institution interested in participating in this program, please contact Daniel Anastasio, Educational Outreach Committee Chairman, at danielanastasiopiano@gmail.com, for information.
Merz Trio Outreach Event
The Merz Trio Outreach Event at the Barshop Jewish Community Center on March 13, 2023.
Sandbox Percussion Outreach Event
The Sandbox Percussion Outreach Event at Greehey Auditorium on February 11, 2023.
Imani Winds Outreach Event
Imani Winds Outreach Event at Haven for Hope on November 14, 2022On November 14, 2022, the Grammy-nominated Imani Winds brought the vibrant, hopeful, rhythmic music of Latin America to the residents of Haven for Hope during a gray, drizzling morning. As around 80...
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble Outreach
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble Outreach at UTSA Recital Hall on October 17, 2022On the rainy morning of October 17 at 9:30 am, 23 music students and several music lovers from the general public gathered for two student performances and...
Parker Quartet Outreach Event
Parker Quartet Outreach at Alamo Heights High School on April 25, 2022On Monday, April 25 at 10:20am, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet arrived at Alamo Heights High School, entered the school orchestra’s large rehearsal room, set up their four stands, and tuned...
Aizuri Quartet Outreach Event
Aizuri Quartet Outreach at Rise Recovery Alumni BBQ on March 19, 2022Last Saturday, March 19, the Aizuri String Quartet conducted an Outreach event which was extraordinary in many ways – it was outdoors, there was food and drinks and face-painting for the kiddies, it...
Sharon Isbin Outreach Event
Sharon Isbin Outreach Zoom Masterclass with students from San Antonio College and UTSA on February 14, 2022 On Monday afternoon, February 14, preeminent guitarist Sharon Isbin gave a powerful and informative Zoom Masterclass to three local, college-level guitar...
Kenari Saxophone Quartet Outreach Event
Kenari Saxophone Quartet Outreach at Ronald Reagan High School on November 15, 2021 Monday, November 15, 2021, turned out to be a remarkable day for all who participated in the Outreach event set up by SACMS at Ronald Reagan High School. At what seemed like the crack...
CMSLC Outreach Event
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Outreach at the San Antonio College (SAC) campus on October 11, 2021 On Monday morning, October 11, 2021, seven musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMSLC) presented a fabulous, hour-long educational...
VOCES8 Outreach Event
VOCES8 at University United Methodist Church on March 2, 2020 Monday morning, March 2, the members of VOCES8 directed a most memorable masterclass for three local schools. The participating choirs were from Atonement Academy, Reagan High School, and UTSA. Each group...
Akropolis Reed Quintet Outreach Event
Akropolis Reed Quintet Outreach at the Juvenile Detention Center on January 27, 2020 Monday morning January 27 was court day at the Juvenile Detention Center, so the lobby was bustling with lawyers and family members of San Antonio youth being held in detention. The...
The Making of a Musician
If you have read the posting by Allyson Dawkins, our Outreach and Education Chair, you already know we sponsor Monday concerts and classes at local schools; I know she has written about our last venture which was very successful, but I’d like to tell you my impression...
Ariel Quartet Outreach Event
Ariel Quartet Outreach at Lamar Elementary School on November 11, 2019 Kudos to SACMS board member, Paul Giolma, for having us invited to present an educational outreach for very young listeners at Lamar Elementary. Lamar is situated on one of the streets that...
Apollo’s Fire Outreach Event
Apollo's Fire Outreach at The Towers on October 7, 2019 On October 7, rejuvenated by one of the first cool mornings of our south Texas autumn, residents of The Towers enjoyed a delightful private concert of baroque violin and traverso music. Violinist Olivier Brault...
Wu Han Outreach Event
Wu-Han at St. Mary's Hall on April 28, 2019 Following the Han-Setzer-Finckel Trio concert on Sunday April 28, pianist Wu Han gave a beautiful Outreach Concert at St. Mary’s Hall for around 250 students aged 14-17, faculty, and a handful of Chamber Music Society board...
Eighth Blackbird Outreach Event
On March 11 eighth blackbird shared their talent with a segment of the population that is too often forgotten. They played for an hour in the Morningside Manor assisted living unit.
Cavatina Duo Outreach Event
The Cavatina Duo outreach took the form of two simultaneous masterclasses at the UTSA Department of Music on Saturday afternoon, January 26, 2019.
American String Quartet with Poet, Tom Sleigh Outreach Event
American String Quartet with Poet, Tom Sleigh at Brandeis High School on November 12, 2018On Veteran’s Day, Monday, November 12, SACMS hosted one of its most exciting Outreach events ever. It was exciting because we had 450 music students in the audience at Brandeis...
Brentano String Quartet Outreach Event
Brentano String Quartet at the Juvenile Detention Center on October 8th, 2018 On October 8th the San Antonio Chamber Music Society sponsored their third outreach event at the Juvenile Detention Center. It is always interesting to attend an event at this facility. The...
Orion String Quartet Outreach Event
Orion String Quartet at Bexar County Jail on April 16, 2018 On a beautiful San Antonio spring morning with crisp temperatures, Kenneth Bloom and I set out with the Orion String Quartet on a trip to the Bexar County Jail. The jail has a population capacity of 6,000...
American Brass Quintet Outreach Event
American Brass Quintet Outreach at Sacred Heart Chapel on March 5, 2018 On March 5, 2018 we heard an inspired Outreach Concert by the American Brass Quintet in the stunning Sacred Heart Chapel. The title ‘chapel’ is a misnomer as the building is a remarkably...
Chanticleer Outreach Event
Choral Masterclass Led By Fred Scott – Music Director Of Chanticleer at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on January 22, 2018 On January 22 we were lucky to have Fred Scott lead a masterclass for three school choirs. The class lasted an hour and a half with...
Rebel Baroque Outreach Event
Rebel Baroque with Matthias Maute at Judson Montessori School on November 13, 2017 On Monday morning November 13 the students at Judson Montessori School had a delightful treat when the spirited Rebel Baroque group played an informal concert for them. The younger...
Pacifica Quartet/Sharon Isbin Outreach Events
Pacifica Quartet Outreach at Alamo Heights High School on October 16, 2017 On the Monday after their performance with Sharon Isbin, the Pacifica String Quartet gave an amazing workshop for about 140 string students at Alamo Heights High School. The program was about...
Calmus Ensemble Outreach Event
Calmus Ensemble Outreach at Madison High School on April 24, 2017 On April 24, 2017 the amazing vocal group Calmus Ensemble from Leipzig, gave a beautiful private performance for 40 lucky choral students at Madison High School. The group sang a quite different program...
Les Amies Outreach Event
Les Amies Outreach at UTSA Recital Hall on February 26, 2017 On Feb. 26th Carol Wincenc, world renowned flutist of the Les Amies Trio, conducted a Master Class at the UTSA Recital Hall for UTSA and YOSA musicians. The class started with all the students (and audience)...
Aeolus Quartet Outreach Event
Aeolus Quartet Outreach at Jackson Middle School on January 23, 2017 Bright and early on this Monday morning, the young musicians of the Aeolus Quartet started off with some Mozart (Adagio & Fugue K.546) before talking with the 200 or so students gathered in the...
Brasil Guitar Duo Outreach Event
The outreach event of the Brasil Guitar Duo at the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center on Monday was special for those of our Board members who came and a real treat for the detainees. The boys and girls, aged 12 to 17 years slouched in, arms folded behind them as...
Dover Quartet Outreach Event
Early on Monday morning, April 4, the Dover String Quartet headed out to Serna Elementary to play for Pre-K through 4th graders. They were invited by SACMS board member, Joe Lamm, who volunteers to listen to children read at the school. Hundreds of small children...
The Shanghai Quartet with Wu Man Outreach Event
On Monday February 29 at noon, the Shanghai Quartet, along with pipa virtuoso Wu Man, performed an hour-long concert in the beautiful Holly Auditorium on the UTHSCSA main campus. After being introduced by Dean of the Medical School, Dr. Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano,...
Gryphon Trio Outreach Event
On January 25, 2016 the Gryphon Trio performed an Outreach Concert for SACMS at the Edgewood Fine Arts Academy for music students. The trio played in the beautiful auditorium. It was a pleasure to hear music in such a great acoustic space, and it was also wonderful to...
Zemlinsky String Quartet Outreach Event
Bright and early, on a chamber of commerce perfect November morning, we set off with the Zemlinsky Quartet members to escort them to their Outreach performances. First we headed to Clark High School where three classes of eager high school orchestra students awaited...
St Lawrence String Quartet Outreach Event
#MusicalMondays make us happy! How amazing is the St. Lawrence String Quartet?! 🎻 A video posted by University Health System (@universityhealthsystem) on Feb 23, 2015 at 10:33am PST The St Lawrence String Quartet outreach event was held at the University...
New York Woodwind Quintet Outreach Event
The New York Woodwind Quintet outreach events were held at the Performing Arts Center and at the Beyer Ranch Post-Outreach Barbecue on January 26, 2015.
Quartetto di Cremona Outreach Event
The Quartetto di Cremona outreach event was held at MacArthur High School on November 17, 2014.
Escher Quartet Outreach Event
A most successful Sunday afternoon concert was followed by an enjoyable dinner for the Quartet and SACMS Patrons. The Quartet discussed their forthcoming performances in Amsterdam and Italy and also their instruments. Outreach had been scheduled for the following...
Tempest Trio Outreach Event
The Tempest Trio presented an outreach concert to a rapt audience of 250 at the Jewish Community Center on January 27. Audience members ranged in age from 6 months to long-time community members.
Modigliani Quartet Outreach Event
Following the outreach concert, the quartet spoke with students en francais. Outside of the Keystone theatre, the directors of music and French joined arms with the quartet, who were astounded by the warm weather on November 18th. "It was a treat to have you and the...
Miro Quartet Outreach Event
Following an unusual performance (the audience got to vote on some of the pieces performed) on the SACMS formal series, the Miro Quartet gave a stimulating outreach concert for orchestra students at Lanier High School. Orchestra...
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin with pianist James Dick Outreach Event
Russian string ensemble performs at Brackenridge HS Author: Ursula Pari, Anchor publish date October 15, 2012 SAN ANTONIO - Hundreds of high school students who have never heard a live classical chamber orchestra got a chance to...
Red Priest Outreach Event
SACMS was extremely fortunate to have Red Priest perform two outreach events on Monday following their performance on our series on Sunday March 4 at Temple Beth-El. The events took place at The Montessori School of San Antonio and at UTSA. The audience of 200...
Aiana String Quartet Outreach Event
On February 15, 2012 the Aiana String Quartet performed in an Outreach Concert sponsored by SACMS. At Clark High School they gave a lively demonstration of a string quartet “in progress” as they are pursuing post-graduate degrees in music under the tutelage of the...
American String Quartet Outreach Event
The American String Quartet took joy and music to the hearts of young under-served students on a hot, autumn afternoon in San Antonio. The Youth Orchestras of San Antonio has developed a free after-school program called Music Learning Center on the City’s West Side....
Lafayette String Quartet Outreach Event
On April 4, 2011 the SACMS was fortunate to be able to present the Lafayette String Quartet in two Outreach Events. We started off with a fortifying and traditional breakfast for the quartet at San Antonio’s legendary El Mirador. Then Allyson Dawkins and Ken Bloom...
Imani Winds Outreach Event
On the Monday following their Nov. 14 SACMS concert, the Imani Winds presented an outreach program at Sam Houston High School. After the group got on stage, four of the musicians went out into the aisles surrounding the 115-student audience and the bassoon player...
Lee Trio Outreach Event
The Lee Trio presented an excellent educational concert for the orchestra class at NESA. Some of the students in the class are composers, thus the first piece played was very welcome to their ears. It was living composer Nathaniel Stookey’s piano trio which was...
Lark Chamber Artists Outreach Event
As the Lark Chamber Ensemble began setting up in the Reagan performing arts building, students watched with particular interest as Yousif Sheronick pulled out different percussion instruments. Orchestra and band students streamed in along with an economics teacher and...
Albers Trio Outreach Event
The Albers Trio, brought to Providence by the San Antonio Music Chamber Music Society, performed for the middle school division and then toured the Najim Campus Center. Read about their experience at Providence by going to their blog. Of note, Eileen (Doyle) Lundin,...
Aviv String Quartet Outreach Event
On Monday, March 16, 2009, the San Antonio Chamber Music Society was privileged to present the Aviv String Quartet in two outreach events. In the morning the quartet played at the Jewish Community Center for both young children (including 3 year-old toddlers!) and...
Prazak String Quartet Outreach Event
On Monday, February 18, 2008, the Prazak String Quartet presented two educational outreach concerts for the San Antonio Chamber Music Society. In the morning they played at Brandeis High School and in the afternoon they played at Edgewood High School Academy.
Orion String Quartet Outreach Event
On Monday, February 18, 2008, the Orion String Quartet presented two educational outreach concerts for the San Antonio Chamber Music Society. In the morning they played at MacArthur High School for the varsity orchestra, music theory students, band members, and...
Enso Quartet Outreach Event
On October 8, 2007, the Enso String Quartet performed two educational concerts for the San Antonio Chamber Music Society. In the morning they played at the Cyndi Krier Correctional Facility which is a detention center for adolescents who are serving terms. The...
Jupiter String Quartet Outreach Event
On October 9, 2006, SACMS had its first educational events of the season. The Jupiter Quartet performed two classroom concerts at Trinity University for non-music major students. These students who are studying music history with Dr. Carl Leafstedt represent future...